Kneeling for Justice: Athletes and Peaceful Protests

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Whether kneeling or sitting, professional athletes using their national fame to protest for social justice is a very good idea. Collin Kaepernick has created the most peaceful protest concerning police brutality. People dislike what he’s standing up for so they’re saying they don’t like that he’s sitting/kneeling when in reality, that’s not it. His protest was about police shootings not just police shooting african-americans or black lives matter. People just assume that because he’s biracial. Collin Kaepernick has started a very peaceful protest protaining to police shootings. Peaceful protests are needed. When Mike Brown died in July the people of St.Louis were destroying their town and throwing things, it looked terrible. Collins protest …show more content…

Collin never once said anything about ONLY black shootings. Of course he’s going to understand it more when it happens to black people because he himself is black. Collin always said “police brutality” not “black lives matter”. There have been more black people dying lately people would assume that he’s only standing up for other african-american people when that’s not true. People also forget that his mom is white so they don’t think about that all they see is his african-american side. In the world there have been more white people getting killed by cops but black people are minorities. There are way more white people then there are black. In conclusion, I still think Whether kneeling or sitting, professional athletes using their national fame to protest for social justice is a very good idea. Collin has created a very peaceful protest concerning police brutality. People dislike what he’s bringing awareness to so they’re saying they don’t like that he’s sitting/kneeling when in reality, they don’t really care about his protest. His protest was about police shootings not just police shooting african-americans or black lives matter. People just assume that because he’s half

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